Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1877

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7.

THE CONSTITUTION. The New York Graphic as a daily picture paper has succeeded ia obtaining a general circulation throughout the states. Its -litical cartoons have been intensely radical, and the Graphic as a partisan sheet has sought more industriously to effect its purpose by addressing the eye than the reason, judgment or conscience ot its patrons. To what extent its efforts proved a success we have' no means of knowing, unless we take the vote in the city where it is published as a standard of measurement, ia which case we should conclude it was not sufficiently flattering to warrant any additional investments in the political picture business. Our purpose, however, in alluding to the Graphic, was not to criticise its picture gallery, but to t all attention to its outspoken distrust and blatant denunciation of the constitution of the country. In this regard the Graphic is eminently consistent as a radical organ, for it is safe to Bay, whatever may be the professions and declarations to the contrary, deep down in the radical organization there is and has ever been a well defined hostility O the constitution the magmt iharta of American right Of the political parties in America that have appeared upon the stage and obtained prominence and power, only the radical party has . been distinguished for hostility to the constitution, and only the radical party has violated its most sacred and cherished guarantees. It is not surprising, therefore, to see a confessed radical sheet, an out and out Hayes organ, openly denouncing the constitution. Just now when the constitution is being looked to and appealed to, and when it is justly regarded as the only salvation of the country, the Graphic declares as follows : The war taught the American people that the constitution was merely a means to an end, that It was imperfect und needed a deal if patching and plecinir. and that it must bp subordinated to the iuteretd of thecountry and sacrificed to the necessities of liberty nnd order. It Is surprising how the public feeling res pert in the constitution tins changed since ljO. People believe len In it letter and moreIll its intention and spirit. They think more of the government, ami, in spite of all the clap-trap about centralization, pile more work on its hands than ever before; but the constitution has dropped Into a secondary place. It has been quoted so often in opposition to Wise and important measures, and used so often to b-ttrucl legislation required by the interest of the country, that it has come to lie regard ed as a good ileal of a bugaboo. Grant and his associate conspirators have not been greatly disturbed by constitutional bugaboo?, and the radical parier have not felt sufficient interest in the old instrument to take special exceptions to any of the flagrant violations of its letter or spirit. The success attending the attacks of the radical party upon the constitution has been so marked that the country was pressed to the verge of ruin, and as an evidence of the blindness and madness of the party committing the crimes, the Graphic in this hour of darkness, instead of denouncing the miserable crew who have brought.about this winter of discontent, strikes at the constitution of the country, and sneeringly alludes to the devotion of the people to law and order as constitution worship, and intimates that no constitution at all would be preferable. The Graphic's article indicates wifh vivid distinctness the drift of radicalism, and its outspoken opposition to the constitution is a fitting appendix to the returning board frauds by virtue of which the radical party hoped to gain a president and a new lease of power. KELLOGG'S EXPLETIVE. The refinec? expression with which the radical Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, received the damning evidence against the Louisiana returning board in Washington, a few days since, was, "It beats hell." It ia a very strong expression to- say that anything of an earthly character "beats hell," but we are beginning to believe, as the infamous revelations concerning those Lousiana scoundrels are unfolded to the country with such startling rapidity, that Kellogg's expression was very nearly the tnuh, and applies to all the features of the rascally scheme to count Mr. Hayes in. Just look at it On the morning after tin presidential election, every indication pointed unquestionably to Mr. Tilden's election. Even the scattering returns from Florida and Louisiana indicated that lie had carried those states by handsome majorities. That made no difference to old Zach and the governors of Louisiana' and Florida. They quickly bethought themselves of those ras.cally contrivances, the returning boards, and without having anything favorable for Mr. Hayes from actual returns received, they unhesitatingly telegraphed over the country that Hayes was elected. Then began the gradual progress and unfolding of the plot. As long as yYisconsiit was in doubt so long Kilpa trick and Settle, the radical candidate for governor of X'orth Carolina, claimed North Carolina for Hayes. As soon as it was definitely settled that Wisconsin had gone for Hayes, then thej' ased claiming North Carolina for him. Now notice the sworn testimony that has been coming from Washington for the laat week. Tbese.ioint3 have been unquestionably proven: That old Zach Cliandler telegraphed to the governor of Florida that the state must be held for J la yes; that the governor anewered that he must have money and troops to do it OI Zach replied that they would be sent. Theji it was shown unquestionably that drafts of money amounting to $5,000 at least were sent to Packard, the bogus radical qovernor of Louisiana, which contained the indorsement of Z. Chandler. These are not newspaper rumors, but sworn evidence. Now what next in this evidence that "bU bell," as Governor KelJogs says? Then fooies direct evidence from

parties thoroughly posted upon the inside history of the returning board that in one precinct of Louisiana where Mr. Hayes received two votes, it had been changed to 178 votes for him. The papers wherein the erasures were made were recognized by one of the returning board as being the original papers from Vernon parish. Then, last of all, comes this disgraceful m evidence against Governor Wells, the president of the Louisiana returning board, who absolutely offered the electoral votes of Louisiana for one round million dollars, and as Mr. Hayes got the votes and old Zach's indorsement appears on drafts that went to Packard, the Hayes radical governor of Louisiana, the presumption is strong and almost irresistible that Mr. Wells told the state to the Hayes and Chandler combination. We conclude, therefore, that the expression of Kellogg, that the evidence "beats hell," although coarse and unrefined, is exceedingly expressive and warranted by the fac"ts in the case.

A DISTINGUISHED IXDIAXIAN. Captain James B. Eads, who Is about to revive an Installment of JGOO.OUtl for his work of opening the mouth of the Mississippi, is in hin nfty-wventh year and a native or Iawrencebnrgh, Ind. At a very earlv age he evinced a strong taste for machinery, and at eleven constructed without any instruction a miniature engine that worked perfectly with steam. He ban struggled upward to the iKMutefudoii ot a large private fortune, excellent health and thoroughly American taste, passing such grades a apple pedler, clerk, Mississippi wrecker, proprietor of the first Ulm blowing establishment in the west, and builder of twenty-seven lroncladgun aud mortar boats. Madisou Herald. Indiana is fortunate in being able to claim James It. Eads as one of her sons, and quite as fortunate in the fact that Captain Kads has outgrown state boundaries and is now claimed by all of the states, and more particularly by those whose producta are destined to seek the markets of the world via the Mississippi river. The success attending the engineering venture of Captain Eads in building the bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis brought him into distinguished notice and conferred upon him a national reputation. An ordinary ambition would have been satisfied with such a monument of scientific knowledge and skill. Not so, however, with the brilliant and aspiring Indianian. His ambition was to make the father of waters open his mouth to the commerce of the world, and thereby date a new era in the progress and prosperity of the west Captain Eads is self-reliant. Where others had achieved failures, and thereby inoculated the country with doubt, the daring engineer saw success. Opposition to hid plans was formidable and objections came in groups. He met them with assurances that were pronounced preposterous. West Foint engineers, loaded down with science and learning, pronounced his plans failures, and looked forward to the time they would be pronounced prophets as well as scientific solons. All this did not move Eads from his purpose. He saw victoy in the distance and his faith brought it near. Known to be eminently practical and removed as far as possible from the vagaries of an enthusiast, he was able to enlist others in his great undertaking, and boldly contracted with the government to succeed for a certain sum of money or fail at his own expense. As a result of his confidence and skill, he has secured a channel twenty feet in depth with-, out one dollar from the government. The triumph interests all commercial nations, and Captain Eads is to-day a more distinguished man than Czar Alexander or Kaiser William. He has solved one of the most obstinate problems of the age and conferred upon the country a blessing that will grow in importance as population increases and the exhaustless resources of the west are developed. When this great man, after accomplishing the task assigned him, asked for his pay, Mr. Secretary Morrill, true to his instincts, refused him the lionds as expressly stipulated, to the disgust of every citizen who has a soul as big as a flea. By the express conditions ot the contract Captain Eads was to have from the government $500,000 when he bad opened a channel Ihrough the bar twenty feet in depth, and this amount was to be paid in government bonds unless previously ordered to be paid in money. No order up to the time of the demand had been made to pay in money, and Eads therefore demanded pay in bonds. At this time bonds were above par, which is supposed to be the reason why the secretary of the treasury refuses them, for it is assumed that if they had been below "par the gallant captain would have been required to take them as per contract. The indications are that congress will right the matter, and in this way rebuke the arrogant secretary for his disregard of the stipulations of a plain contract and an equally plain duty. ( TROrBLEN IX CLAY COUNTY. It becomes more evident every day that the first reports of the infelicitious condition of society In Clay county, growing out of the removal of the county seat from Bowling Green to Brazil, were exaggerated. It is by no means unusual for some excitement to I attend the removal of county seats, or for the citizens whose interests are affected to anticipate more or less trouble. In the midst of excitement, when mere rumors are apt to take the shape of established facts, transactions of trivial importance assume unwarranted consequence, and not unfrequently do whole communities injustice. We conclude, from representations made by parties entirely reliable and well informed, that whatever excitement may have existed in Clay county, growing out of the removal of the county seat, quiet now reigns supreme. The great majority of the people of Clay county, as in other counties of the state, are law-abiding und will see to it that the good name of the county does not suffer by the Indiscretions of the less considerate portion of the community.

THE APPORTIONMENT ACT. We were somewhat curious to know what defense could be made of the infamous apportionment act, concerning which Governor Williams has recently sent a special message to the legislature. The Journal having already committed itself to the kindred rascality of the southern returning boards, it gravitated as naturally to the defense of the rascally apportionment act as a duck to water. In a somewhat labored column article it stirs up enough dust to almost obscure Irom sight the rascally features of the bill. There are only two points in it that even approximate to the dignity of argument. One lacks absolutely the essential quality of truth, and the other is a technical question. First, the Journal virtually admits the rascality of the bill as to "localized representation," but asserts that it does not "work inequalities in party 'representation in the aggregate." It is therefore in relation to this proposition that we say it lacks the essential quality of truth. Now let us look at it "in the aggregate," and see if the same rascally inequality does not obtain. The democracy cast at our late state election 213,101 voles, and the radicals 208,080 votes. Now, for these 208,000 voters the apportionment act gives the radicals 51 representatives, and to th democracy, with her 213,000 voters, this intamous bill gives only 4G. In other words this bill gives one representative to about every 4,000 democrats, while it gives one to about every 3,800 radicals, or in still other words 3,800 radicals are equal to 4,000 democrats. Now, the Journal can not escape this conclusion, that with a larger vote the democracy have a smaller representation than the radicals. With delicious tang frnul it says, "with a vote only 5,000 less" (than the democrats) "the republicans have an excess 'of but six members." Just so, and with 10,000 less votes in Louisiana than Tilden received, the radical rascally quartette counted Mr. Hayes in. If 5,000 less votes than the democrats received give five more radical representatives, hy is not Mr. Ben Harrison governor? It bAe most successful piece of rascally political machinery that we have seen at work in this country. We take now the senators and representatives, and find that the democrats have only 71 members and the radicals 78; or one to every three thousand democrats, while the radicals have one to every twenty-six hundred. Thus looking at the bill from any reasonable stand-point, we find chicanery and fraud woven into and through it in every portion. ' We pass now to the only other point in the Journal's article which is of any especial value. The constitution says that "apportionments shall be made once in every six years." The Journal pronounces the governor's suggestion that it may be made offener as "puerile" "too puerile to need re'ply" and then proceeds heroically to reply through a quarter of the column which it gives to the message. Notwithstanding the opinion of our radical contemporary, we agree with the governor. If the word "only" had been inserted, so that the clause would read that ''the apportionment shall be made only once in every 'six years," then our high constitutional Journal authority might pronounce our good governor's argument " puerile," but as it stands we think the governor has the better of the argument. Ex-Governor Hendricks showed up the mean features of the apportionment act in a sieech he made one night on the Circle in the summer of 1874, and we add a portion of the main points: The entire vote of the state ,377 ,819, apportioned among 100 representatives aud 00 senators, wouldgiveone representative to 3,.iS, and one senator to 7.5.VI votes. Lake county, with a vote of 2,41, which is 1,321 below the represeutative ratio, has one representative. Porter, with a vote of 2,977, which Is 801 below the ratio, has one representative. Steuben, with a vote of 2,793, which Is 9S5 below the ratio, has one representative. IjOgrange, with a voteof2,N7, which is 911 below the ratio, has one representative. Jennings, with a vote of 3,4:, which Is K below the ratio, has on representative. Vermillion, with a vote of 2,210, which is 1,5.'!3 below the ratio, has one representative. Warren, with a vote of 2,490, which is 1,28 below the ratio, has one representative. Lawrence, with a vote of 3,hM), which is 200 below the ratio, has one repres ntative. Monroe, with a. vote of 3.21U, which is 32 below the ratio, has one representative. And Kenton and Newton together, with a vote of 2,945, which is 844 below the ratio, have one representative. These 11 counties are strongly republican, gtvlngan aggregate republican majority of ijttl, but they lack 8,75)9 votes to entitle theni tn the 10 representatives given them. There are seven other counties which fall below the ratio in their vote, and are allowed each a representative, but the aggregate deficiency la less thau one representative apportionment. Bartholomew Is a democratic county, with a population of 4,761, which was 93 more than enough for a representative." but Kile was allowed none, lirown county is democratic, with a total vote of 1.G33. She was allowed no reprepresentative; but she and Bartholomew constitute one representative district, with an entire voUj of 6,-iyi, being an excess of 2,619 over the ratio of representation, and such excess being more than the entire vote of either Lake, Vermillion or Warren, each of which has a representative The ex-governor gives other instances of this infamous apportionment as it effected the lower house, and then takes up the senatorial representation, as follows: The wrong is equally great in the Renate. Posey and Gibson, with 8,177 voters, have one senator, aud Lake and Porter,wilh 5,421 voters, have a senator. Dearborn and Franklin, strongly democratic, with 9.4 vaters, have a senator, aud Elkhart, with but 552 voters, has a senator. Jefferson, with but 5,40ä voters, has a senator, whilst Clark and Floya together, with 10,278 voters, have but one. SheLby and Johnson, with 9,024 voters, have a senator, and Parke and Vermillion, with but ö,im voters, have one senator. Adams and W-lls, with unequal representation In the house, have no senator except with Allen in a district of H,t9 voters. itando pli, with bat 5,014 votern. hau one senator, and Putnam and Hendricks, with 8,:V7 voters, have one, which is controlled by the republican majority of Hendricks. Mr. Hendricks points out still farther glaring inconsistencies in this bill. In fact, no convincing argument can be made in favor of the rascalities of this apportionment act The radicals in the legislature can make the pa me appeal to each other that Morton made to his senatorial confreres, to which we alluded yesterday. Apparently they have a "sure thing," as Morton said

they had to defeat,, the compromise bill; so these Indiana radicals have a "sure thing" in a small but arbitrary majority for tke present to continue in force the monstrous apportionment act. The Journal admits that there is a gcnsral impression abroad that the law is infamous and iniquitous, but claims that there is no real foundation for it. "We would ask that paper and the supporters and defenders of the act, why it was that Governor Baker refused to sign the bill? Answer that. "What on earth it has to do with the apportionment act we do not know, but the Journal speaks about the governor bejng led into scenes of revelry and gaiety, and volunteers some gratiutous advice, etc., in connection with the discussion. We suspect that one of the results of Harrison's defeat, most sadly mourned for, was the favt that a certain set of radicals were debarred the pleasure of tripping "the light fantastic" during the winter at Governor Ben's receptions. We have heard the sad, sad intelligence that soiue of the ladies had in the early fall selected their costumes for the winter hops, feeling assured from reliable information that Ben had "a sure thing" of it. Let the darlings come to the governor's receptions; they will be perfectly welcome. THE I.OClsiYILLE MURDER. ' The proprietor of the Willard hotel, a Mr. Whipps, murdered a man by the namecf Stocktona few days since. The testimony brought out by the coroner's inquest is conclusive that the murder was not committed in self-defense. Whipps, it seemed, did not like Mr. Stockton, who as a hotel manager was his superior, a fact which it is safe to say aroused the jealousy of Whipps and prompted the original insult and difficulty, and demonstrated pretty conclusively that Whipps, whatever else he may have, lacks manliness, an essential ingredient of a gentleman. We do not know that Whipps premeditated murder, but from our reading of the testimony he evidently sought a quarrel, and it is pretty safe to say that when a man of position in Kentucky seeks a quarrel, he is prepared beforehand to take the consequences in which the chance for loss of life or limb is generally included. It is quite possible that the social position of Whipps was a grade higher than that of Stockton, but we do not know that such was the case. Be that as it may, there was somelhingin the tone of Whipps' s language to Stockton indicative of a feeling of superiority, p.nd that sounds very much like the olden timcwhen a master addressed his slave. Whipps, not content with one shot, never stopped until he had lodged three balls in the body of his victim. We do not know that this Louisville tragedy is any ' concern outside of the state. The delightful task of commenting upon such a transaction in Louis ville may belogn exclusively to the Ken tucky press, but there was one feature connected with it that attracted our attention. Whipps was arrested and brought before Judge Price, the distinguished police jurist of that city. This was before Stockton's life had oozed out at the dumb mouths made by Whipps's bullets, and the bale was placed at $ 10,000, which in Whipps's case was about equal to 10 cents in the case of a poor man. After Stockton was dead, some people in Louisville who felt a pride in the good name of the city, sought to have Whippo rearrested and the bail increased, but were told that $10,000 for killing a luan in the heat ot passion answered the demands of the law, and so Whipps roams at large or devotes his time to the guests of the Willard as to him may seem proper. We conclude if Judge Trice knows the law, all that is necessary when one man regards it necessary to kill another man in Louisville is to get himself intoa"heat of passion," and then blaze away. The price having been fixed at $10,000, no further concern need be had upon the financial aspect of murder in the "heat of passion." 51 K. LAX OERS BILL. In the Sentinel to-day will be found copious extracts from a bill introduced into congress by Mr. Landers of this district The bill is an amendment in the nature of a substitute for the house bill to construct the Texas and Pacific railroad from Fort Worth, Texas, to San Diego. California. Mr. Landers's bill is worthy of serious consideration. It is not probable that either it, or the one for which it is proposed as a substitute, wiil become a law during the present session of congress. The time is too short for many bills to pass, and this, with a host of others, will most probably fail to be acted upon for want of time. Mr. Landers is eminently a practical man, and whatever be undertakes to" do he does in a practical manner. In relation to the building of the Southern Pacific railroad, he believes that if his bill is passed it may be done without costing the government a dollar. He thinks that the effect of issuing the treasury notes provided in his bill would be to revive business and restore confidence ii investments. He h& argued in several of his public Seeches that treasury notes of the character of those named in his bill would be par in gold. It will be observed on reading the bill that the proposed notes are not promises to pay, but promises to receive. Whatever may be the opinion of the people in relation to the granting of subsidies to railroad corporations, there is no difference of opinion among those of the Mississippi valley as to the desirableness of a southern road to the Pacific if such a road can be constructed without cost to lh government Mr. Landers believes this can be done under the provisions of his bill, and if he is correc t in this belief the bill certainly ought to pass. We bespeak for it the careful consideration of our readers.

Two ancient claims upon the state treiury received their quietus ia the legislature

COUNTING IX A PRESIDENT. In very many respects the court that will commence its sessions to-day in Washington will be the most august assemblage of which history gives any account. It is clothed with power under the law to determine who shall be president and vice president of a republic numbering more than forty millions of people, and it is also clothed with power to reverse the sovereign decision of the people made on the 7th of November last at the ballot-box. Within a few weeks past it has been thought advisable by some to proclaim to the world that in this supreme moment of the country's need, all ideas of party should be sunk in the patriot, and that this sublime climax had been reached by the passage of the bill creating the arbitration tribunal. We should like to believe that the millenium in politics has dawned but we do not and our heresy is strengthened by the fact that the great arbitration tribunal is made ud of political partisans, and still further strengthened by the additional fact that the plan from the first contemplated such a court. In saying this we do not propose in the least to disparage the honesty, judgment or patriotism of the gentlemen composing the committee. It might, as a matter of justice, be proper to say that judges of the supreme court ought to be elevated by the dignitj of their office above partisan politics. The same might as properly be said of all judges. But the fact remains nevertheless that even supreme judges are human, have human frailties like other men, and like them are influenced by preconceived notions of right and wrong party affiliations, associations and predilections. The partisan complexion of the committee is thus distinctly marked, as will bo seen by the following list of those who compose it: 8EXAT0IW. DemocrntU'. liatlical. A.G. Thurman, Ohio. O. F. Kdrnuud, Vt. T. F. Bayard, Del. O. P. Morton, Ind. F. T. Krelinghuynen, New Jersey. RKPfiE.VTATIV KS. II. B. Payne. Ohio. G. F. Hoar, Mass. K. llunton, Virginia. J. A. Garfield, Ohio. Josiah Ci. Ablott. ÜI'RKMK JCDGFS. X. Cli fiord, Mai ne. 8. F. M Hier, Iowa. 8. J. Flelir, California. Wm. M. Strong, Penn. J. 1. Bradley, X. J. ' The committee acting with the senate and huse of representatives commences its arduous task to-day. It is worthy of remark that notwithstanding the members of the commUtee were probably selected on account of their ability, patriotism, experience ond familiarity with the matters to be submitted to them, eminent legal talent has been employed, and here again crops out the fact that partisanship is regarded as an important factor in the controvery. It is sufficient to say In this connection that the democrats have employed Judge Black and the radicals Mr. Kvarts, an evidence that the minds of the

committee may be deflceted in the direction of party success, and that forensic eloquence in its grandest displays will not be wanting to modify or distort facts as the interests of the clients of these advocates and their associates may demand. It is possible that the iminds of the gentlemen composing the committee are . made up and will undergo no change, but we should regret to be forced to such a conclusion in regard to the attitude of the supreme court judges, since the testimony in regard to Louisiana is such as ought to make even Morton give up the contest and declare Tilden and Hendricks elected. The country will watch witu the most intense solicitude the progress of the count More, far more, than who shall be president for the next four years is involved. Admitting, and we do it freely, that the country will abide by the decision of the committee, it will remain no less a truth, more enduring than brass, that if Hayes is counted in it will be a triumph of villainy the most audacious known to history, sacred or profane. Such a verdict would weaken the confidence of the people in the decisions of the ballot-box, and would go far in fixing the belief irrevocably in the popular mind that there is something iu the government of more power and consequence than the sovereign will of the peo pie when constitutionally declared, which in this instance would be fraud. URANT AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ARBITRATION. Grant's official sun is setting. That it does not go down leaving the country in the grasp of civil commotion is in no wise to be placed to his credit He sowed to the wind, and that the country does not garner the bitter fruits of the whirlwind is to be credited to the efforts of others. The fact is on record that Grant, was the associate and defender of conspirators and the advocate of their damnable plots until the gathering storm of popular indignation compelled him to hesitate and seek, as best he could, to oblitetate from the minds of the people some portion of the infamous record of his corrupt administration. When troops were wanted to aid the plans of the conspirators, Grant forwarded them with a promptness that evidenced to the world his disregard of the rights of people and states, and the utter coatempt he entertained for constitution and laws. When the sacred ness of courts was suggested to him as a barrier to his despotic will and acta, true to his brutish instincts, he exclaimed, "Damn the supreme ' O irt" Blind to all consequences, deaf to all appeals, drunk with power and hate, isolated by partisan madness from honest men and patriots, Grant, in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana,contributed as the conspirators demanded the influence of his high office and the military power of the country to reverse the decision of the people and to place Hayes in the presidential chair by means so essentially vile that, as the facts are disclosed, the amazement and humiliation of the country increase. The disap-. pear a nee of Grant from office will be the

disappearance of the most terrible incubus the country has ever been called upon to bear. Men of all parties will breathe freer. Those who have known Grant best and have hl large opportunities for analyzing his character, have regarded him as a dangerous man; dangerous to the peace and welfare of the country and the history ot his administration places these conclusions beyond controversy. The fact that Grant signed the arbitration bill does not in the least palliate the crimes he has committed against the -onstitution in the interest of conspirators. They form some of the gloomiest chapters in the history of the republic, and they will stand, huge and haggard, landmarks in the downward course of the country under his administration. The radical party has bestowed upon the country numberless curses, prominent among which are Grant and the returning board. If the country outlives these the chances for long life to the republic are indefinitely increased. PRESS OPIXIOX.

Nashville American: Judge Davis manifests a Aery excellent knowledge of the president and the wants of the country in declining to resign until the 4th of March. He it needed on the bench, Grunt needs rest from the arduous duty of appointing, and every way it is a very excellent decision. Richmond Enquirer: Chandler says he regards all communication between himself and Grant as confidential. Of course he does. Who ever heard of a conspiracy being anything else? If his designs had been fully exposed in the beginning, there would have been a different phase of political affairs today. Boston Tost: The New York legislature oupht to pass the amendment to the dueling law of the state that the grand jury has provided for its consideration. There ought to be no loop-holes through which society can be cheated out of evidence after such a ridiculous and demoralizing fiasco as that which has been the sensation of the past two weeks at the metropolis. Courier-Journal: The New York Times and other organs of tke society for the indorsement of habitual criminals have never yet explained why it is that the republican judicial authorities at Aiken, South Carolina, have persistently refused tu try the cases of the persons charged with niassacrcing negroes at Hamburg last summer. Every man accused has come to time and demanded a trial, but from time to time the cases have been continued. The reason is that there is no cuse against any of these men. Brooklyn Kagle: The spirit of the dei.icracy throughout the country deserves commendation. At a time when republican bitterness is intense, and republican lust of office is so prominently exhibited as to disgust the people, the democratic attitude is refreshing. From all sections of the nation telegrams are pouring into Washington urging the peaceful solution of the presidential question, and to the democrats in congress all look for wise measures and conciliatory steps. Iiising to the dignity and imiortance to the obligations now resting upon them, they are calm and earnest, considerate and uninlluenced by partisan feeling. On the other hand dissatisfaction is rampant and the demngoguery of the party was never more plainly evident. Philadelphia Times: The flection of David Davis to the senate of the United States by the state of Illinois, will, with very many, be a source of mingled congratulation and regret. It is gratifying that the bombastic Ixgan has been overthrown, for he was faithful to no party or convictions to nothing indeed, but his own ambitious pretentions, but it is to be regretted that one of the ablest and most trusted judicial minds of the supreme court is to be transferred from the bench to the senate. Nor is the regret in the case confined to Judge Davis. In no instance since the organization of existing political parties has a judge of the supreme court been transferred to a political orlice, and it would be well had the custom been jealously observed for all time to come. COWARDLY ASSAULTS. When a candidate for high office is so well liked and so-popular with the masses as to make Ins defeat difficult in a fair an i honorable fight, mean and cowardly men are not wanting who delight in manufacturing lies and slandering his good name. There are also those whose selfishness prompt them to prostitute their honor, iwrvert truth and ignore right for the sake of injuring a competitor in business, whose prosperity they envy, and with whose business sagacity they have not the talent to successfully compete in an honoiable way. These thoughts are suggested by the mean, cowardly attacks made upon me and my medicines, by those who imagine their pecuniary prospect injured by the great popularity which my standard medicines have acquired and the continued growth of my professional practice. Narrow-minded practitioners of medicine, and manufacturers of preparations which do not possess sufficient merit to successfully compete for popular favor, have resorted to such cowardly strategy as to publish all sorts of ridiculous repoits about the composition of my medicines. Almanacs, "Receipt Books" and other pamphlets are issued and scattered broadcast over the land, wherein these contemptible knaves publish pretended analvses of my medicines, and recipes for making them. Some of lhese publications are given highsounding names, pretend to be issued by respectable men of education and position, for the good of the people the more completely to blind the reader to the real object in their circulation, which is to injure the sale of my medicines. "The Topular Health Almanac" is the high sounding name of one of thee publications, which contains bogus receipts without a grain of truth in them. Not less devoid of truth are those which have been published by one Dr. L., of Detroit, in the Michigan Farmer, and by other manufacturers of medicines, in several so-called journals of Pharmacy. They are all prompted by jealousy and utterly fail in accomplishing the object of their authors, for, notwithstanding their free circulation, my medicines continue to sell more largely than any others manufactured in this country, and are constantly increasing in sale despite the base lies concocted and circulated by such knaves. The people lind that these medicines possessgemüne merit, accomplish what their manufacturer claims for them, and are not the vile, poisonous nostrums which jealous, narrow-minded physicians aud sneaking compounders of competing medicines represent them to be. Among the large number of pretended anatyses published, it is a significant fact that no two have been at all alike conclusively proving the dishonesty of their authors. It is enough for the people to know that while thousands, yes, I may truthfully say millions, have taken my medicines and hare been cured, no one has ever received injury from their me. K. V. Piercf.,.M. IX, Proprietor of Dr. Pierce's Medicines, World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y.

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